Reinventing the toilet: A Yale dropout gets creative
According to its holder, U.S. patent number 6,256,800 is going to revolutionize Western civilization. Made of "powder coated" tubular steel, it sells for $85 plus $13 shipping and handling over the Internet.
The inventor is Jonathan Isbit, a member of Yale's Class of 1972 who left school one semester short of graduation. The product is "Nature's Platform," essentially a table elevated at a 5 degree angle that allows the inclined to squat 2 inches above the seat of a conventional toilet.
And the inspiration for his water closet crusade, Isbit said, is Yale...
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